Spode
1 Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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“No,” he’s told, “by the time Spode formed his association, there were no shirts left. He and his adherents wear black shorts.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2025
He said he had a "particular interest in Spode with its history of design continuity over hundreds of years".
From BBC • Apr. 6, 2022
Usefully, Bertie, who generally is “not frightfully up on the personnel of the political world,” knows Spode personally, and considers him a loathsome “carbuncle.”
From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2018
It’s the one about the theft of an 18th-century cow creamer and the machinations of the would-be dictator Roderick Spode, leader of the Black Shorts.
From Washington Post • Dec. 7, 2016
More or less independent later experiments in France and England led to Sevres, Wedgwood, and Spode porcelains.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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